caa a22 4500 477034764 CHVBK 20180405111302.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s002689900098 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s002689900098 Indications and Results of Arterial Stents for Occlusive Disease [Elektronische Daten] [Samuel S. Ahn, Blessie Concepcion] Abstract. The application of stents for treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease has gained widespread clinical use, but their safety and efficacy remain unclear. Stent technology is still evolving, and long-term follow-up data are sorely needed. Stents have had good success in providing a scaffold to maintain the intraluminal structure and patency of an artery. As such, stents appear to play a role in improving early results after failed or inadequate balloon angioplasty. However, stents do not prevent restenosis due to intimal hyperplasia. Furthermore, stents may be thrombogenic and prone to extrinsic compression in the peripheral position. Thus patency results are clearly worse in the femoral artery (47% at 3 years) than in the iliac artery (82-84% at 6-24 months). Furthermore, there is no evidence so far that stents improve long-term patency over standard balloon angioplasty without stents; and complication rates of stent procedures are generally 10%. Currently in the United States stents are approved for use in the iliac artery position. However, routine use of stents cannot be recommended until studies demonstrate that the results with stents are better than those with balloon angioplasty alone.: 1996 by the Société Internationale de Chir, ugie Ahn Samuel S. Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 510, Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A., US aut Concepcion Blessie Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 510, Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A., US aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s002689900098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s002689900098 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahn Samuel S. Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 510, Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A., US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Concepcion Blessie Department of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 100 UCLA Medical Plaza, Suite 510, Los Angeles, California 90024, U.S.A., US aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer